Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Saturday, October 26, 1963, The Frances Hubbard Diaries


October 26, 1963
Saturday, lovely day, hot, 70's.  Clifton and David didn't work.  Girls, Clifton and I went to Cooperstown in pm to see Earl.  Carol, Wayne, Linda and Jay went to South Jefferson at night for hay ride and Halloween party.  Sue and Becky went to parsonage to Halloween party.
Comment: Nice weather hanging on. Hay rides and Halloween..... Barry Taylor was there when the horse fell on Uncle Earl: "Gerald, I was there when the horse fell on Uncle Earl.  We took him to Cooperstown hospital where the surgeon said they would have to snowball his leg because it was so badly broken." Cuzzin Barry


Sounds like the broken leg was bad news.  Socrates Hubbard describes another horse accident in his memoirs.  Paul Hubbard was the older brother of Socrates by six years and here Socrates describes Paul's children:


          "Paul had three children Dominick, Socrates and Ermind.  Dominick dyed soon aftir his return from Calafornia at the age of six.  The circumstances of his death were distresing in the extreem.  He fell from a horse his father was leading and apparently without serious injurey the next day he was taken with violent pain and dyed in fearfull agoney.  Socrates is now in the Navel School Rode Iseland and is a very promising youth of seventeen.  Ermind is now about 12 or 13 years of age and a very pretty and spritely child."

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
 Dwight David Eisenhower






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